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Page Two CHATHAM BLANKETEER September 16, 1940 [around the mill I CLOTH DEPT. A Shift Three “G Men” Left to right: Horace W. Slocum, Herbert Greenwood and George Harbison, inspectors from the Quartermaster Depot in Philadelphia.— (Photo by C. C. Poindexter.) We knew that Elkin was a nice place to live in, but never dream ed it could be so obliging. When the weather was hot, we were given a deluge of water (flood to you) and now that the nights are getting chilly, we’re given a nice (?) fire to warm by. Such hos pitality is touching, but really I don’t think we deserve it. Despite fire and flood our de partment still goes on with the cry, “I don’t have any news to day.” Some of the questions asked me last year were: Are you going to Elkin? Have you found a place yet? One asked most now: How do you like Elkin? First a flood, then a fire — what next? Have you bought your ticket for the football game yet? Doris Roush attended the dance at the Reynolds Gym last Sat urday night. Maude Mae Roush has been out of work this week due to a bad case of tonsillitis. Sylvia and Johnny Strehlow left Saturday for New York City where they will visit Mr. and Mrs. Henry Howell for three weeks. Katherine Whitener comes in every morning showing a new bum she received cooking at her new apartment. She and Anne have a food allowance—and when they checked up last week they found that they had eaten next Tuesday’s ham last Saturday. Ruby Bolet visited her parents in Anderson, S. C., last week. Jim Murrell says if anyone comes to see him to please come to the door quietly and not blow the horn, because he always takes a nap on Sunday afternoon. We will try to cooperate with your beauty sleep, Jim. Lorene Dunlap visited relatives in Walnut Cove over the week end. Wonder why Alma Couch isn’t going back to school this fall? Maybe she thinks that marriage may teach her more than books. Miss Ruth Claire Lambeth, of Winston-Salem, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Allie Pope, this week. Mr. Norman Pfaff and Miss Lucy Jones, of Winston-Salem, visited Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Hanks recently. Louella, what is the matter? Can’t you pass the road in front of Boone Castle without turning down it? Jack Smith and family took a motorcycle trip to Roaring Gap. Jack says the fishing wasn’t so good. Kenneth Dudley has been heard lately singing “I’ve Found a Hiding Place.” It might be a good thing to have if the con scription bill is ever passed. Flash: Lib Dorse and Charlie Barkley were last seen together leaving Independence, Va. Well, everyone has a right to his own opinion, Lib. Mr. Olaf Carter and family have moved into their new home at State Road. H. Badgett wants to know wherein lies the magnetic charm of Leon Stewart. He is setting all the feminine hearts a-throb here lately. Bob Smitherman is our dona tion to the Army. He will be stationed at Camp Jackson, Co lumbia, S. C., for a brief period, then sent to the Panama Canal Zone. His leaving will ring down the curtain on his and Ruth’s song and dance routine. Roy Kane has gone the WPA one better. He has invented a head rest to be attached to the steering wheel. He found the gadget very beneficial on his last project of “Tapping the Silo.” Mrs. Harden Adams gave a birthday dinner Sunday for her brother, Robah Mock. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mock were present for the occasion. RING SPINNING A Shift We are glad to have Harvey Parks back with us. Harvey and his fmaily have been on a vaca tion this last week. He says he saw several interesting sights and had a wonderful time. Last Saturday night, the soft ball team played in the Journal- Sentinel tournament in Winston- Salem. After the game all the boys tok a shower except Weinnie Powers, Ab Crater and James Frye. Those boys took a bath be fore they left the park though. Outside the park in the dark there was a mud hole about two feet deep. In the order of one, two, three, Weinnie, . Ab « and James fell in the mud hole. We have ju^t receiYed news in this department that tlKere are two entries in the horse show from the Carding department. The show will be held Friday. The two horses are widely known by the names of “Streaking Leather Head,” owned by Joe Dobson, and “Lightning Frizzle Tail,” owned by Ral Haynes. Roy Judd, our softball pitcher, pitched some mighty fine ball in the tournament, in the game that we lost that put us out of the tournament, we got more hits off the opposing pitcher than the other team collected from Roy’s pitching. Some folks in this department are very prosperous. Fred Neaves has just purchased a new watch and Jack Terrill is wearing a new watch too. W. O. Key is still walking around here with some kind of a window sticking out in front of him. Lost—One man—weight, 192— height 5’ 9”—color of hair, sorter gray—color of eyes, grayish green —wears glasses—has a few gold teeth—drives a blue 39 Chevrolet sedan—chews gum a lot. Last seen in Dick Chatham’s office— This man answers to the name of Rev. J. L. Powers or “Pass the Chicken.” He has been missing three weeks. If found—please re turn to this reporter and the rest of the boys in the Spinning de partment. WEAVING B Shift Worth, you ’ had better speed up with your walking because you won’t have so many rest periods in the Army. Grady Day says he is going to get Curtis Couch to make Efird Hudspeth a pair of Johnnywal- kers to have on hand while he works in case any more stray dogs are wandering around. Someone please have an air raid shelter built to protect Vert Cockerham and Hazel Madison. Bessie Gilliam says a lemon a day keeps the doctor away. Since the conscription bill has been under discussion Dallas Gil liam and Branon Day have been going around singing, “Rock of Ages, Hide Thou Me.” Lightning sure is a working character these days. We suppose it is the salt tablets he has been taking. Somebody please advise Ev- erette Darnell to take Voice Cul ture. He disturbs Rat Darnell’s dogs with his singing at night. When Carl Calloway and Hugh Harmon go on the war path, it makes the western front look like the Garden of Eden. Jones Darnell reports that he isn’t going to get another hair cut until he quits working on Sunday. Will someone please buy him a pack of bobby pins or a curling iron. Will ' someone please teach Casey Haynes to tell the time? He started home the other night at ten instead of eleven. Catherine, small daughter of Joe Darnell, had the misfortune to break her arm last Sunday. Miss Lucille Ward, of Inde pendence, Va., was the week-end guest of Miss Lexa Cummings. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sid Hud speth, a daughter, Hugh Chat ham Memorial hospital, Septem ber 12. Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, kohlirabi and Brussels sprouts are all sub-species devel oped from the wild cabbage of Europe.
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